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dds 3rd birthday.

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zobey · 12/12/2014 14:37

So dd is 3 in Jan, and I've got her everything she wanted for Xmas. I've got her for her bday, a tablet kids one cost 42.00, desk cost 19.99, duplo cost 19.99, dressing up trunk 24.99, two dresses I've had made for her 26 each. And a play house cost 179.99. I'll get her craft bits to go with the desk but do you think that's enough or am I being tight. I'm also going to get her the frozen wand that sings that she wants that's 12.99.

OP posts:
bakingtins · 12/12/2014 14:55

I think that's a ridiculous amount to give a three year old. She would probably be just as happy with the £12.99 wand she asked for.

Original poster
zobey · 12/12/2014 14:57

I was asking a serious question. Usually she has a mass of gifts but not this year. I was asking is that few gifts Ok to give. I don't care about the money- my dd comes 1st and I'll go without. I buy her nothing throughout the year only Xmas and birthday.

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LingDiLong · 12/12/2014 14:59

Aaand a lovely extra boast to finish 'sob sob, I don't eat all year to give my daughter an insane amount of expensive presents and teach her that material goods are the sources of all happiness'

LadyLuck10 · 12/12/2014 15:00

Get a reality check op. Seriously you just came on to boast. Why do you need to run a list past strangers for approval?

mistymorningmemories · 12/12/2014 15:02

My mil does this - tells you exactly what's she's bought and exactly how much it cost and then "apologises" for not getting more. It infuriates me, it's attention seeking pure and simple.

fuckwitteryhasform · 12/12/2014 15:03

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PrincessFudgeBonnet · 12/12/2014 15:03

It's purely for the "oh but that's loads" type comments. So awkward in real life situations.

tertle · 12/12/2014 15:04

Eh? Sounds lots. I am sure she'll be thrilled especially as you have bought her what she asked for.

Kellie1991 · 12/12/2014 15:06

entirely up to you. Your money you can spend it as you like. i dont think its tight at all . infact i would say ita totally excessive for a 3 year olds birthday but thats just me....we spent 200 on my son for xmas and hes got tonnes of stuff but for his birthday he only gets one or 2 things and an absolute top limit of £50 last yeara birthday was an exception as we needed a garden shed to put his outdoor toys in so we bought him a wooden playhouse for that purpose instead of a shed.

silveroldie2 · 12/12/2014 15:07

There are people homeless and without food living on the streets and you're asking if you're being tight by spending £300 on plastic crap for your 3 year old's birthday. Think about it.

And stop stealth boasting on here it's sickening and no-one gives a fuck what you do.

IgnoreMeEveryOtherReindeerDoes · 12/12/2014 15:09

Well is she likely to say 'mummy if only you spent £5 more it would of been perfect'.

Ffs kids at that age have no valve of money so this post was pointless

Effiewhaursmabaffies · 12/12/2014 15:16

What will you give her next year? Or the year after? Its sounds like she has all of the presents for the next 5 years at once.

My youngest sees everything on the tv and says that is what she wants. She is 5. Your three year old cant possibly have asked for all of that.

Bizarre

Tinkerball · 12/12/2014 15:17

Well I hope your obvious low self esteem has now been boosted now you've boasted on MN how much you are buying your DD for her birthday. Any sane rational person would know that buying that gluttony of presents for a birthday isn't tigjt. You obviously don't live in the real world or you wouldn't have to ask.

MrsTerryPratchett · 12/12/2014 15:18

I wish DH was here. He mutters darkly about people buying toys 'made out of dinosaurs FFS'. Plastic crap that lasts 5 minutes in your house and a thousand years as pollution. I can't talk, DD was spoiled rotten.

TinyTear · 12/12/2014 15:20

Save the playhouse for Easter when it's warmer

that is loads!

momb · 12/12/2014 15:22

No OP, you aren't harming your child by giving her too little. You are harming her in other ways: spoiling her, not giving her anything to look forward to as she grows up, and apparently having to see her poor mother starve all year to buy all this stuff.

DuelingFanjo · 12/12/2014 15:23

yeah, funny.

WeirdCatLady · 12/12/2014 15:27

Yawn.

Xmas Biscuit
Fudgeface123 · 12/12/2014 15:27

She's 3 ffs! Why does she need all that?

ilovesooty · 12/12/2014 15:34

Sadly this thread appears to be serious.
Of course people can spend what they like but if I were poster struggling for food and heating day to day I'd find this obscene.

Jasonandyawegunorts · 12/12/2014 15:40

Joke thread

Fanfeckintastic · 12/12/2014 15:41

Personally I'm way more into experiences, days out, weekends away etc with DD also 3. I brought her home a Peppa pig magazine today with a free toy of bunk beds and she's been playing with it for an hour having a ball and making up little scenarios. Each to their own but I find it odd you're so focused on the prices of the items and also that you feel so unsure of what your own daughter would like that you need to ask strangers online.

Figster · 12/12/2014 15:44

Are you being serious? Or stealth boasting

My ds is 3 this month we've spent £40 on him and prob about the same for Xmas. And that's more than enough

JavelinArse · 12/12/2014 15:44

Hmm OP there is more to Christmas than shit loads of stuff.

Were you out shopping on black Friday by any chance?!

Jasonandyawegunorts · 12/12/2014 15:45

See the trouble is, if she doesn't spend this amount, 3 ghosts will visit her on Christmas eve.

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